Frank



(No Model.)

P. 0. HAUBNER. STAIR PAD 0R CARPET LINING.

No. 570,221, Patented Oct. 27, 1896.

SS 8 MIKE/W0}? Y W fiwmw I I %M144t% By UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

FRANK 0. HAUBNER, OF NEW YORK, Nrv.

STAlR-PAD OR CARPET-LINING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 570,221, dated October 27, 1896.

Application filed August 2 2 1 8 9 6.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK O. HAUBNER, a citizen of the United States, residing in-the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stair-Pads or Carpet-Linings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved stairpad and carpet-lining in which the cottonwaste of cotton-factories is utilized by forming a continuous fabric of any desired length which can be cut off the required size; and the invention consists of a stair-pad or carpet-lining in which the cottonwaste is supplied in strands of suitable thickness and width, said strands forming the warp of the fabric, which warps are connected by means of weft-threads that are passed transversely across the cotton warps and intercrossed with intermediate warp-threads that intermesh .with the weft-threads by knotting-stitchcs, so

that a reliable connection of the parts is obtained,and thereby a strong and durable stairpad or carpet-lining is obtained without any covering or in connection with a suitable covering, as desired.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan view of my improved stairpad or carpet-lining, showing the tubes through which the warps of cotton-waste are supplied; and Fig. 2 shows one of the cotton warps drawn on a larger scale and showing the binding of the same with the weft-threads and with the intermediate warp-threads.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My improved stair-pad or carpet-lining is made on the machines known as knittingmachines, in which the warp-threads are interlocked with the weft-threads by means of knitting stitches or loops, the loops being formed by the action of suitable needles in the well-known manner. Instead of making a knitted fabric, as is usually made on machines of the class described, the weft-threads are arranged a distance from each other, and warps or strands of cotton-waste of suitable thickness and width are supplied through suitable guide-tubes G, (shown in Fig. 1,) which in practice are arranged above the needles. The cotton employed is the well-known cotton-waste of cotton-factories, for which Serial No. 603,563. (No model.)

little use has been found heretofore. This waste is run by suitable machines into the required width and thickness of strands required, so that it can be directly supplied to the guide-tubes of the knitting-machine. The weft-threads B are passed around the strands A of cotton-waste, which are to some extent the warps of the fabric, and are interlocked with loop-stitches formed by the needles in the warp-threads a, arranged intermediate between the strands of cotton-waste, as shown in detail'in Fig. 2, the weft-threads passing laterally above and below the strands of cotton-waste A, and are tied off from time to time with an extra number of warp-threads and loops, especially so at the edges of the fabric, so as to form a selvage a by a number of interlooping warp and weft threads, as shown at the left-hand side of Fig. 1.

By constructing the machine used for making thefabric in a suitable width any desired width of stair-pad or carpet-lining can be made on the machine, the fabric being produced in continuous lengths, from which pieces of any required length canbe cut off, as required by the width of the steps for which the stair-pads are required or by the length of the room in the case of carpet-lining. It is obvious that when the fabric is used for stair-pads strands of great width and thickness have to be used, while for carpet-linings strands of small thickness and width are employed. The resulting fabric forms a yielding cushion for the stair or room carpets, which is very desirable, as all these strands of cotton-waste are firmly held in a network of looped weft and interlocking warp threads, so that a superior article for this purpose is obtained which can atthe same time be manufactured at a comparatively low price owing to the cheapness of the cotton-waste employed in the body of the fabric.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A lining for stair and other carpets, consisting of strands of cotton-waste, intermediate parallel warp -threads between such strands, and weft-threads interlocked by the warp-threads by means of knitting-stitches, substantially as set forth.

2. A lining for stair and other carpets, consisting of strands of e0tt0n-Waste, intermediate parallel warp-threads, Weft-threads interlocked by said warp-threads by means of knitting-stitches, and a series of extra looped Warp-threads arranged at the ends, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

FRANK 0. IIAUBNER. lVitnesses:

GEO. W. JAEKEL, GEO. L. W1-IEEL0eK. 

